linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio-pci: do not oops on config change if driver not loaded

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Message-Id: <200901301215.40312.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:15:40 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-pci: do not oops on config change if driver not loaded

On Friday 30 January 2009 02:02:16 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> The host really shouldn't be notifying us of config changes
> before the device status is VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER or
> VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK.
> 
> However, if we do happen to be interrupted while we're not
> attached to a driver, we really shouldn't oops.

Thanks, applied!

Rusty.
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